Decrypt headlines
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Solana Foundation Hires Binance's Former Global CMO for Institutional Push
Rachel Conlan arrives as chief strategy officer and Polygon Labs' Jamal Raees takes over payments, both recruited from elsewhere in crypto.
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Decrypt Media and FOMO Hour’s Thought Leader Farokh Sarmad to Take Main Stage at NEXTPredict NY Conference
Premier Partnership will livestream the Main Stage through Decrypt Media and bring Rug Radio and FOMO HOUR programming onsite.
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Elliptic Wants Every Cop to Read a Crypto Wallet in Seconds—With AI
Elliptic’s new AI-assisted tool, called Pulse, lets any officer input a wallet address or transaction hash and get a plain-language summary in seconds, aiming to bring crypto tracing beyond specialized units.
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Morning Minute: Selig Says ‘It’s Go Time’ for CFTC Crypto Rules
The CFTC has been extremely busy ever since the Clarity Act failed its vote, and it appears they’re ready to accelerate.
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Q-Day Could Arrive Before Quantum Computers Are Commercially Useful, EU Warns
The threat could arrive before quantum computers are commercially useful, and member states have until the end of 2026 to plan for it.
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Brooklyn Man Who Bragged About $16M Coinbase Scam Gets Up to 12 Years
He posed as support staff, emptied about 100 accounts, then lost $6 million of the proceeds gambling, according to his own messages.
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Anthropic Says Claude Found Something Big in DNA. It Just Doesn't Know What
Anthropic says Claude autonomously found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system. Even Dario Amodei admits nobody knows what it actually does.
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An AI Agent Just Hacked a Government Website for the First Time, Australia PM Says
Anthony Albanese said the agent accessed public and non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal in June, calling OpenAI's three-month delay in disclosing the breach "unacceptable."
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OpenAI Gives Ukraine Access to Daybreak AI Cyber-Defense Tool
OpenAI is giving Ukraine's government access to Daybreak, its AI vulnerability-hunting system, as the country's cyber defenders face a record wave of attacks on hospitals, power grids, and government networks.
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China Probes DeepSeek and Moonshot Over Alleged Data Leaks to Anthropic's Claude
China's internet regulator is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic accused both of secretly routing millions of user exchanges through Claude to train their own models.
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Meta's Muse AI Agent Read a User's Private iMessages. Then It Lied About How
A tech columnist declined to give Meta's new AI agent access to his messages. It read them anyway, then invented an explanation for how it knew.
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Zcash's Wall Street Moment Reaches Europe With Its First ETP Listing
21Shares listed Europe's first Zcash exchange-traded product on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam this week as ZEC continues its banner year.
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$15.6 Billion in Bitcoin Options Expire Friday—Here's What It Means
Deribit's strike-by-strike data shows a book stacked with calls, and one price level drawing hedging pressure from both sides at once.
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Borrow Against Your Bitcoin at a Fixed Rate: Coinbase Expands Morpho Loans
The product lets users lock in their rate and repayment date when borrowing USDC against Bitcoin, marking the first enterprise-scale deployment of Morpho Midnight and a shift away from on-chain lending's variable-rate norm.
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Crypto Exchange That Invented 100x Leverage Is No More: Here’s What BitMEX Users Need to Know
BitMEX ended trading at 04:00 UTC Wednesday and is urging users to withdraw their remaining funds, as fees now apply to balances left on the exchange.
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Canada's Six Biggest Banks Team Up on a Shared Digital-Dollar Network
RBC, TD, BMO, Scotiabank, CIBC and National Bank are jointly exploring a Canadian-dollar tokenized deposit system, starting with transfers between the banks themselves.
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NYSE Taps Blockchain.com to Reach Crypto Investors With Tokenized Stocks
Blockchain.com and NYSE Group signed a preliminary agreement to give the crypto exchange's users access to tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs, pending regulatory approval.
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Americans Would Use Stablecoins—If They Came With Bank Protections, Visa Study Finds
A Visa survey found U.S. willingness to use stablecoins for cross-border transfers rises from 36% to 56% when paired with hypothetical bank-level fraud protection and deposit insurance.
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Bitcoin Dips, But Its Forks Are Flying Again
A CME futures listing and a fresh Grayscale ETF filing sent Bitcoin's two biggest forks soaring, even as the flagship coin cooled off its seven-month high.
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BlackRock: AI Agents Could Drive Crypto's Next Demand Wave
The world's largest asset manager argues that autonomous AI agents buying data, paying for services, and renting computing power could quietly become one of the biggest forces pushing money into crypto.
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Morning Minute: Bitcoin Hits $86,000 as Oil Slides and ETFs Bid
Crypto majors continue their climb while alt leaders hit new ATHs. What’s driving the recent run up?
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North Korea's Fake Job Interviews Drained $11M From 7,000 Crypto Wallets
A seven-agency advisory ties the WaterPlum hacking crew and Pyongyang's remote IT worker scheme to the same bureau.
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CFTC Staff Advisory Says Prediction Market 'Mention' Contracts Invite Manipulation
Three weeks after fining a teleprompter operator who traded on speeches he had already read, regulators set out what exchanges must show.
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Former Polish Police Officer Charged as Zondacrypto Probe Searches Fuel Depot
Investigators are combing the site where the exchange's founder was last seen in 2022, using experts and forensic equipment.
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UN Security Council Will Get Advice on AI Risks From Tech Giants Building It
DeepSeek will address the UN Security Council on AI risks this week, sharing a stage with Dario Amodei—who has spent a year calling China's government the industry's biggest threat.
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$161 Million in Decade-Old Bitcoin Has Moved in Just Two Weeks
Four ancient wallets moved 1,971 BTC between Sept. 6 and Sept. 22, including a 600 BTC transfer worth $51.9 million just hours ago, with three of the four carrying "Noah Doe" lawsuit tags.
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CME Expands Crypto Futures Lineup With Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap
The exchange operator is adding standard and micro contracts for BCH and UNI, extending a pattern of altcoin rollouts that already covers Cardano, Chainlink, Stellar, Avalanche, and Sui.
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Inside Coinbase’s $250 Billion Playbook for Post-Quantum Bitcoin Custody
Head of cryptography Yehuda Lindell says the exchange is designing custody that can adapt to whatever post-quantum signing scheme Bitcoin adopts.
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White-Hat Hackers Route Coldcard Exploit Bitcoin Into 'Recovery Trust'
Galaxy Research says white-hat actors consolidated coins tied to the exploit into a fresh address tagged for a "Crypto Recovery Trust," though the funds represent just 2.8% of the total haul.
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OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna Minutes After Anthropic Drops Claude Opus 5.5
OpenAI cut prices 50% on its mid-tier models the same day Anthropic shipped a cheaper flagship, escalating a rivalry now measured in minutes.